How to install latest Arduino IDE? [duplicate]

Arduino IDE is installable with Ubuntu Make:

  1. Install Ubuntu Make

    • for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS from official PPA ppa:lyzardking/ubuntu-make:

      sudo add-apt-repository ppa:lyzardking/ubuntu-make
      sudo apt-get update
      sudo apt-get install ubuntu-make
      

      PPA is needed because of two fact: package for 16.04 LTS does not support installation of Arduino.

    Note: umake from 18.04 Universe repo may fail installing arduino ide. If so, you will need to purge ubuntu-make and install from the PPA. If this is the case you will also need to delete ~/.local/share/umake with rm -rf ~/.local/share/umake. See this QA for more info.

    • for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and newer systems from universe repository:

      sudo apt-get update
      sudo apt-get install ubuntu-make
      
  2. Install Arduino IDE with Ubuntu Make

    umake electronics arduino
    

    or for 18.04 (without PPA, may fail)

    umake ide arduino
    

    This will download Arduino IDE from official site and install it to ~/.local/share/umake/ide/arduino and set corresponding shortcuts and file associations for it.

    You can repeat this command again to get newer version.

Note: do not forget to add your user to dialout group with sudo usermod -a -G dialout $USER .


The easiest way to install the latest Arduino IDE is to use the arduino snap:

snap install arduino

Then add your user to the dailout group:

sudo usermod -a -G dialout $USER

After this, reboot your device and open Arduino IDE.

A note about Python support

The Arduino IDE snap runs inside of a sandbox for security and stability reasons. This means it cannot access the Python libraries on your device. The snap bundles Python 3 and the serial library. If you need any other Python dependencies, you can install them inside of the sandbox using the arduino.pip command.

arduino.pip install <package-name>

Note: do not use sudo for this command